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Clump-scale chemistry in the NGC2264-D cluster-forming region

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-10-20 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We have conducted mapping observations toward the n3 and n5 positions in the NGC\,2264-D cluster-forming region with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Band 3. Observations with 10000 au scale beam reveal the chemical composition at the clump scale. The spatial distributions of the observed low upper-state-energy lines of CH3_{3}OH are similar to those of CS and SO, and the HC3_{3}N emission seems to be predominantly associated with clumps containing young stellar objects. The turbulent gas induced by the star formation activities produces large-scale shock regions in NGC\,2264-D, which are traced by the CH3_{3}OH, CS and SO emissions. We derive the HC3_{3}N, CH3_{3}CN, and CH3_{3}CHO abundances with respect to CH3_{3}OH. Compared to the n5 field, the n3 field is farther (in projected apparent distance) from the neighboring NGC\,2264-C, yet the chemical composition in the n3 field tends to be similar to that of the protostellar candidate CMM3 in NGC\,2264-C. The HC3_{3}N/CH3_{3}OH ratios in the n3 field are higher than those in the n5 field. We find an anti-correlation between the HC3_{3}N/CH3_{3}OH ratio and their excitation temperatures. The low HC3_{3}N/CH3_{3}OH abundance ratio at the n5 field implies that the n5 field is an environment with more active star formation compared with the n3 field.

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@article{arxiv.2109.05723,
  title  = {Clump-scale chemistry in the NGC2264-D cluster-forming region},
  author = {Kotomi Taniguchi and Adele Plunkett and Tomomi Shimoikura and Kazuhito Dobashi and Masao Saito and Fumitaka Nakamura and Eric Herbst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05723},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

16 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables, Accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)